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What really happened at Basecamp

Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy. #Labor

2021-4-27 5:00pm The Verge Casey Newton ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-9 9:06pm

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI. #Politics

2025-9-4 5:30am The Verge Josh Dzieza ($) 10,000 words

Rated 2025-9-5 1:22pm

TinyLetter had a big moment

On February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s.

2024-2-29 6:00am The Verge Kevin Nguyen 3,000 words

Rated 2024-3-19 10:27pm

How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.

2023-10-1 5:30am The Verge Elizabeth Lopatto 3,000 words

Rated 2023-10-8 6:16pm

The end of the Googleverse

From PageRank to Reader to Image Search, Google transformed online curation and internet virality. When did this cultural mainstay begin to lose relevance?

2023-8-28 7:00am The Verge Ryan Broderick 4,000 words

Rated 2023-8-29 7:41pm

Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems

The Verge

Rated 2023-4-26 10:56pm